Furthermore, the Commission has proposed key initiatives such as the External Investment Plan to encourage investment in Africa and the EU Neighbourhood and the proposal for a Union Resettlement Framework to ensure orderly and safe pathways to Europe for persons in need of international protection.

The Commission's recommendation for a voluntary humanitarian admission scheme with Turkey should be complemented with actions on the ground as well as a more structured framework for resettlement.

As part of the migrant and refugee resettlement strategy, the Mangere Refugee Resettlement Centre in Auckland provides education on forced marriage to all people resettled in New Zealand under the refugee quota.

I have 25 years involvement with the Canadian humanitarian resettlement program, including the private sponsorship program.

The statements in the social union are that all governments believe the freedom of movement of Canadians to pursue opportunities anywhere in Canada is an essential element for Canadian citizenship; governments will ensure that no barriers to mobility are created in new social policy initiatives; and governments will eliminate within three years any residency-based policies or practices that constrain access to post-secondary education, training, health and social services, and social assistance, unless they can be demonstrated to be reasonable and consistent within the principles of the social union framework.

Mr. Harvey Weiner: In addition to that, I think we now have, for the first time, a mechanism agreed to by the provinces and the federal government; it is called the social union framework, and it provides an opportunity to integrate this as one aspect of a comprehensive child development system in which the provinces, the communities, the voluntary sector, the NGOs, and the federal government work together to ensure that there are accessible opportunities for those who need that particular aspect of the service and for other services that will form part of a comprehensive package.